Ch 151 – 12 June, Lots of things to do 02

Kouta left the room with a satisfied look on his face. The plan he had for Utaha, in the end, was to provide continuous pleasure before delivering a heavy blow at the end. However, right now, he had to be patient and finish what needed to be done to make his life more colourful, right?

In the end, having the opportunity to meet a heroine from another anime and having a connection so that Kouta can meet the heroine is important to him. Especially if the heroine has skills that are very useful for the visual novel or warship girl he is making. Well, so far, Kouta is pretty sure that the heroine in this world has strong plot armour, too, especially since they are almost always successful in their own stories.

Yeah, in Kouta's mind— he will get a talented person and a beautiful girl at the same time with such a promising future.

Kouta got back to his classroom for a moment before going toward the clubroom. As usual, the clubroom was full of girls gathered. In one corner were Takao and Inada, who were busy at their computers. At the same time, at another table, Roka, Chitose and others were engrossed in their activities. It seems that they are reviewing the board game that Roka is trying to make.

Kouta talked to Roka and her group first because he wanted to know what they were doing before he moved toward Takao and Inada.

"So, did you find a student who can help us?" Takao asked Kouta.

"Yeah, I found it."

"Un, she's a cute and petite girl."

Inada told Takao at the same time he answered Takao's question.

"He— is that so?" Takao responded to Inada's words by giving Kouta a dubious look and even gave a small pinch on his hand. Yeah, she just showed some of her jealousy at him.

"Well, she's cute, and I'm confident that she has the skill to help us. Especially if both of you are teaching her so that she can reach a higher level of proficiency." Kouta told them that. As far as he could remember, Ruri had good skills in making games on a small scale. Especially her ability to write, which Ruri was proud of in the Anime because she could write 6 kilobytes of script an hour, such a terrifying ability.

If so, then Ruri's skills are invaluable. So Kouta thinks that he can get help in scripting this game. Then, if Ruri's ability is excellent, then he can leave everything to Ruri as long as she doesn't make the story too overwhelming, even for otaku.

"I want to know where your confidence comes from," Inada said while still focusing on programming. "How do you know about her abilities anyway?"

She was also quite curious about how Kouta knew about Ruri's abilities.

"Hm- You could say I have a good eye for talent. You'd be surprised how good my skills are." Kouta spoke with an unusually confident tone. It is different from the usually more humble demeanour of Japanese people. The thing that made both Takao and Inada's heartbeats quicken. Especially Takao, who had reddened cheeks while her eyes looked at him fondly.

While they were having this conversation, there was a knock on the door and a gentle voice from someone.

"Ano, excuse me."

"Ah, okay. Wait for a moment—"

Kouta opened the door and found three people: a little girl, Ruri and another girl who spoke in a soft voice with a shorter height than Kouta. She also had short brown hair and wore glasses, which were none other than Tamura Manami. A childhood friend of the main character who also came here named Kousaka Kyousuke.

"Oh, you didn't come alone, Ruri?" Kouta asked while looking at the three of them. Currently, Kirino, who was also Kyousuke's younger sister, was supposed to be studying abroad. The thing that made him become very concerned about Ruri, who was outcast by her classmates.

"Ah, yes. We're a bit worried about her. That's why we accompanied her here." Kyousuke answered Kouta's question.

"Is that so? Well, I don't think you have to worry about our club. Most of our members are female, after all, and they're nice girls."

"But— you know— There's some rumour about—"

"Ah, yeah. I understand that. But we have already resolved the issue. Anyway— all of you can enter and see it."

Kouta let the three of them in, and they looked around the room without hesitation. He could see Kyousuke and Manami, who were quite surprised when they looked at Roka and the others' group. Maybe they both knew or knew something about Roka, Chitose and the others.

"Btw, my name is Suzuki Kouta." Kouta introduced himself, which was reciprocated by the two of them.

“Kousaka Kyousuke.”

“Tamura Manami.”

Even though Kouta knew them both from his previous life, he still had to introduce himself to them. He also told them that he would take them to meet and get acquainted with Takao, the president of the GCC club.

"Takao, they came to visit."

"Ah, yeah. Hello, my name is Takao. The president of the GCC." Takao introduced herself, and the three of them reciprocated by introducing themselves to Takao, who nodded her head and looked at Ruri with a gaze of interest.

"Well, we make games and every game you like. Look, we're making mobile gaming while the other is making board games. We're welcome to anyone who wants to make games— Are you interested in making one?"

Takao spoke like that because he could see Ruri, who was immediately attracted to Takao and Inada, who were working on programming.

"Well—"

"It looks like you have some interest. We have nothing in this club. Equipment, tools and books. If you wanted to ask something of us, you can do it too—"

Takao is basically an easy person to communicate with, even though Ruri sometimes responds coldly. He is a kind-hearted senior who is sometimes too innocent to understand Ruri's 'eighth-grade syndrome' antic.

"I wonder what you're interested in doing or if you specialize in anything? Like programming, music, script, and even drawing?

"I'm pretty much able to use any of the tools without instruction."

"Oh, that's amazing."

"Yeah—"

"So you can write a script, too?" This time, it was Kouta who asked Ruri.

"Yeah, I can write the script."

"Really, that's amazing. I hope you'll join us, as I'm the only one who can write scripts so far."

"That might be true." Takao smiled at Kouta's words. Even so, Takao remained fair as she said to Ruri.

"Just like he said— We will appreciate it if you join and help us since it has been too much work for us. But you can do your own project and just help with our project too. He also has many projects."

"Is that so?" Ruri heard what Takao said, and her eyes wandered toward Kouta.

"Yeah, that's true. I also have a project of making visual novels and creating stories as a co-author in an online manga series."

"Eh, you're making manga too?"

Ruri threw those questions toward Kouta, who answered with his standard expression.

"Yeah, I'm a story writer of an online manga called Tomo-chan with a pen name called One." Kouta also shows his work toward Ruri. As an otaku herself, she realized that Kouta's work was the famous one-page manga. She never thought that the author of the manga was in front of him. Moreover, the manga was also published by one of the publishers after collecting one volume of the manga.

"Hm, wait? But I don't think you drew the manga."

"Well, I'm just the author of the story."

"Why? I saw your drawings for the characters in the game. I see your drawings are very good."

"Because I have a lot of things to do and I'm quite confident with my writing skills— Ah if you are interested in writing manga or doujinshi. I can help you to monitor your work." Kouta told Ruri and offered to help her.

"Un— I will think about it."

"Good— Anyway, so are you interested in joining our club?"

Takao responded and questioned Ruri, and she turned her eyes toward Kyousuke as if she was trying to look at his reaction or something. In the anime story, it is said that Ruri really values her time with her circle of friends, which currently only consists of Kyousuke and Saori after Kirino went to study abroad.

"Well, you don't have to work in this place. Of course, we'd be happy for you to work in the club room. Especially if you're busy with activities at home." Kouta again made things easy for Ruri. He looked at Takao, who nodded in agreement with Kouta's words.

Seeing the behaviour of the GCC club members who hoped she would join and continue to make it easy for her made Ruri quite happy. She was also happy because almost all the members of this club were women and they looked like very nice people. Then, even though there was one man in this place, he didn't look dangerous with a girl-like appearance that made him look cute and a little handsome at the same time. He also seemed helpful to her since he had experience in manga and stuff, too. He also doesn't see her like the boys in her class. Therefore, it was not difficult for Ruri to decide to join the GCC club.